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Associative Plurals

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dc.contributor.advisorSeth Cable
dc.contributor.advisorAna Arregui
dc.contributor.advisorGennaro Chierchia
dc.contributor.advisorRajesh Bhatt
dc.contributor.advisorMaya Eddon
dc.contributor.authorHucklebridge, Sherry
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2024-03-27T19:46:48.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T16:03:44Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T16:03:44Z
dc.date.submittedSeptember
dc.date.submitted2023
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this dissertation is to present an analysis of associative plurals in Japanese, Turkish, and Armenian that captures their associative interpretation along with a series of cross-linguistically consistent behaviours that do not seem to stem directly from these special meanings. For associative plurals, group affiliation is established through spatio-temporal or conceptual contiguity rather than a shared description (Moravcsik 2003). Approaches to English-like additive plurality are unable to capture associative plurals because they predict a plurality based on similarity, where every element of a plural noun is either an element of the corresponding singular or a concatenation of those elements. I propose that unlike additives, associative plurals are formed from a contextually specified individual concept that behaves like a group noun. This accounts for data which suggests associative plurals are inherently intensional, with a life that exists across indices. I will suggest that this individual concept is introduced as the plural marker. The noun being pluralized is actually part of a complex determiner that introduces a possessive like R relation that establishes the relationship between the group and the named individual.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.departmentLinguistics
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/35958293
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8389-3032
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/19383
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4042&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectsemantics
dc.subjectplurals
dc.subjecttypology
dc.subjectassociative plurals
dc.subjectpronouns
dc.subjectSemantics and Pragmatics
dc.titleAssociative Plurals
dc.typeopenaccess
dc.typearticle
dc.typedissertation
digcom.contributor.authorisAuthorOfPublication|email:shayhucklebridge@gmail.com|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Hucklebridge, Sherry
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